Chapter 32 Senior Brother, “Comforting the Injured Senior Sister Bai” Part 1
The task “Comforting the Injured Senior Sister Bai” in the game was very simple and short. All players had to do was chance upon Senior Sister Bai at the Xuan Xing Sect’s disciple quarters on Tianyun Peak to accept the mission. Then, for three consecutive days, they had to leave a gift outside Senior Sister Bai’s room. Finally, Senior Sister Bai would come out of her room to let the player complete the quest.
The three gifts were: “A jar of osmanthus wine,” “A cloth doll,” and “A box of rice cakes.”
Although Ye Anping had prepared these three items in advance, seeing Bai Yuexin’s dejected state now made him feel that if he simply gave her the items as he would in the game, it likely wouldn’t help her recover.
He wasn’t good at comforting people either.
“Sigh—”
Ye Anping gently pulled down Bai Yuexin’s outer garment a bit, revealing a pair of delicate shoulders. He then used spiritual energy to activate the calming incense he had just lit in the room. He carefully applied his prepared muscle-soothing oil to her back, using a gentle technique to precisely massage the acupoints where spiritual energy gathered on her body.
Although Bai Yuexin was initially quite tense, thanks to the calming effect of the incense, she gradually relaxed. Her mind emptied, and she fully enjoyed the skill of Ye Anping’s fingertips.
Accompanied by the white noise of the night wind blowing past the paper window, Bai Yuexin’s troubled expression soon vanished.
Seeing that she was feeling a bit better, Ye Anping finally asked, “Senior Bai, why are you wearing this? I didn’t even recognize you at first glance.”
“…I’ve left my sect. I’m no longer a Xuan Xing Sect disciple.”
“Ah?!”
Hearing this, Ye Anping was instantly shocked.
Bai Yuexin had left the Xuan Xing Sect?!
What about his marketplace 20% discount coupon? He had been planning to use it to purchase things!
“Senior, this… have you really thought this through?” Ye Anping quickly tried to persuade her. “There’s no turning back. Once you leave the Xuan Xing Sect, you can never return. Furthermore, other immortal sects will basically not accept you.”
“Mmm… I’ve thought about it. Someone like me simply doesn’t deserve to cultivate,” Bai Yuexin said with a bitter smile, pursing her lips. “I plan to find a town to live in, stop cultivating, and rely on my savings to open a small shop, then find a husband…”
Ye Anping hesitated for a moment, then suddenly stopped what he was doing and put on a disappointed expression.
“If someone with your spiritual root aptitude doesn’t deserve to cultivate, then what about me with my Three Spirit Root? Am I even less deserving? Did something happen today?”
“Today… during the Xuan Xing Sect’s sword trial, I encountered two people,” Bai Yuexin suddenly became disheartened again and sighed. “Their cultivation was lower than mine, and they hadn’t been cultivating for as long as I had, but…”
Two people…
In the game, she must have been traumatized by Feng Yu Die’s attack. Could this second person be…
“Who were those two people?”
“One is named Feng Yu Die, a little girl with white hair. The other is Pei Lianxue, a young cultivator with a Three Spirit Root. I could still comfort myself after losing to the first one, but losing to that Pei Lianxue, how can I still have the face to remain in the Xuan Xing Sect? I, a cultivator with a Single Spirit Root, ended up being worse than a cultivator with a Three Spirit Root… *gasp*—”
As she spoke, tears began to well up in Bai Yuexin’s eyes again.
She turned to look at Ye Anping pitifully, her lower lip tucked under her nose.
Hearing this, Ye Anping’s face became incredibly awkward.
He had really forgotten about this. Pei Lianxue, as Feng Yu Die’s companion reader, should have been one of the examiners in the sword trial, correct.
He should have reminded his junior sister to go easy and deliberately lose the matches before she left the Hundred Lotus Sect.
“How could that be… Fine, I can accept losing to that Heavenly Spiritual Root girl. But why is a girl with a Three Spirit Root also so powerful?! I clearly cultivate diligently every day as my Master requires, not missing a single day in decades, so how could I lose to a girl with a Three Spirit Root! Heaven is too unfair.”
“Ah… perhaps that person named Pei Lianxue just had some special fortuitous encounter?”
“But she only has a Three Spirit Root!!”
Ye Anping gave an awkward chuckle and then tried to encourage her, “Then Senior, you shouldn’t give up like this. If you run away like this, doesn’t that mean you’re admitting defeat? Won’t the Xuan Xing Sect say later that you were driven away by two junior sisters? Besides, what about your friends in the sect? They’ll be sad if you leave too.”
“…”
Bai Yuexin pouted, unable to refute him, but then she flopped back onto the bed.
“I’ve already written my resignation letter anyway, so I can’t go back now. I won’t think about it anymore. I’m going to start my new life.”
“Senior, if you say that, doesn’t it mean you actually don’t want to leave the Xuan Xing Sect from the bottom of your heart? It’s not too late yet.”
“…”
Bai Yuexin fell silent. Since she wasn’t speaking, Ye Anping found it hard to continue comforting her and could only remain silent, continuing with her physiotherapy.
After another half an hour passed in silence, the physiotherapy process concluded.
“The physiotherapy is done. How do you feel?”
“Mmm… My meridians feel much more open. How much are the spirit stones?”
“It’s free today. I haven’t officially opened for business yet. I’ll charge tomorrow. Consider this my repayment to Senior. You approved my shop application before, and I haven’t thanked you yet.”
Bai Yuexin looked at him in silence for a moment, then waved a small bag of spirit stones from her waist.
“One thing is one thing. Take it, and… I’m leaving.”
With that, she retied the belt she had previously undone, cupped her fists in a salute to Ye Anping, and prepared to leave.
Ye Anping stood there, hesitating for a moment, feeling that he couldn’t just let Bai Yuexin leave like this.
Not to mention the “20% discount coupon” he had been thinking about for days.
He wasn’t a Xuan Xing Sect disciple and couldn’t enter their mountain gate. If he needed to contact his junior sister in the future, he would need someone to run messages for him.
Bai Yuexin had a pure and kind personality, harbored no ill intentions, wasn’t the quickest thinker, and was relatively easy to gain the trust of. She also had good results within Tianyun Peak of the Xuan Xing Sect.
This was simply the best candidate for running errands for him.
Ye Anping quickly stepped forward and playfully tugged at her sleeve.
“What is it?”
“Ah… Senior, it’s getting late. How about you rest here for the night and leave tomorrow? When you’re in a bad mood, won’t you fall off your flying sword?”
“…”
Hearing Ye Anping invite her to stay the night, Bai Yuexin became instantly wary.
But looking at Ye Anping’s immature face, which hadn’t fully developed yet, and listening to his voice, which hadn’t gone through puberty, she quickly let down her guard.
—Besides… if he really had any wicked intentions… it wouldn’t be impossible… Anyway, I’m no longer a Xuan Xing Sect disciple…
—And… this handsome young gentleman is also the Young Master of the Hundred Lotus Sect… and… and… he looks so cute… Although we haven’t known each other long, he gives off a good impression of having a nice personality…
—If he really wanted to do something, I’d just cling to him from now on! Opening a shop with him in the future seems like a good idea too…
“No, no, no!! What am I thinking!!” Bai Yuexin suddenly slapped her own face, shaking her head frantically.
“???”
Ye Anping had no idea what she was imagining that caused her to suddenly slap her own face.
“Senior?”
“Ah…” Bai Yuexin snapped back to reality. After hesitating for a moment longer, she glanced at the night sky outside the room. “It is… quite late. Will it be troublesome for me to stay one night?”
“Not troublesome at all, not troublesome at all.”
“Then… where will I sleep?”
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